Got it all figured out. ClassChoice was the missing link. Parser works, and now I'm just looking to refactor the code.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 13:11:09 -0400 Subject: [castor-user] Programmatic mapping Greetings everyone, I am attempting to create an XML entity loader to use with Spring. I want to return List<T> and make it so that you tell the bean what the root element is named so that the user does not have to create a container class. Here is my trimmed code in XmlEntityParser.parse(): public class XmlEntityParser<T> extends AbstractEntityParser<T> { public List<T> parse(String data) { try { Mapping mapping = new Mapping(); mapping.loadMapping(mappingUrl); ClassMapping classMapping = new ClassMapping(); classMapping.setName(RootElement.class.getName()); MapTo mapTo = new MapTo(); mapTo.setXml(rootElement); classMapping.setMapTo(mapTo); FieldMapping fieldMapping = new FieldMapping(); fieldMapping.setName("entities"); fieldMapping.setCollection(FieldMappingCollectionType.COLLECTION); fieldMapping.setType(type.getName()); XMLContext context = new XMLContext(); context.addMapping(mapping); Unmarshaller unmarshaller = context.createUnmarshaller(); unmarshaller.setClass(type); unmarshaller.unmarshal(new StringReader(data)); } } private class RootElement { private List<T> entities; public final List<T> getEntities() { return entities; } public final void setEntities(List<T> entities) { this.entities = entities; } } } Here's what the XML would look like (rootElement and type are properties of the XmlEntityParser class): <class name="XmlEntityParser.RootElement"> <map-to xml="${rootElement}" /> <field name="entities" collection="collection" type="${type}" /> </class> The issue I'm having is that I'm coding along defining the ClassMapping, FieldMapping, etc... and I get to the part where I'm expecting to be able to call something like classMapping.addFieldMapping(), and no such method exists. Am I using the right classes? I want to define the root element stuff programmatically. Thanks! Brian Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Learn more. _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4
